We were particularly proud of releasing Tails 3.0 almost
at the same time as Debian 9.0 (Stretch) which strengthens our commitment to
the free software communities without which Tails wouldn't exist.

We added new features, like OnionShare
for sharing files, and redesigned other core features, like Tails Greeter
and Tails Installer, to be much easier to use.

Security hardening

We'll soon provide a reproducible build of the ISO image to
protect users and developers from a malicious build of our ISO
image. This effort was paid for by the Mozilla Open Source Support
award which we received in 2016.

We promised to work on making all our mirrors use HTTPS and
we're proud to announce that our mirror pool now contains over 40
active and fast mirrors. They all serve our files over an encrypted
TLS connection when downloading via the website with JavaScript
enabled, when using our Download And Verify Extension and when Tails
is updated.

Community

We published our Social
contract, the guiding
principles that reflect the commitment to our ideals.

Fundraising

Have more reliable and steady sources of income: We created a
page presenting our past, present and future partners
and hopefully inciting more companies and individuals to make
substantial donations.

Next to this selection of new features, we also work on recurring tasks:

In 2017, we published seven Tails releases.

We answered 122 bug reports on average each month through our help
desk and helped many people being safer online. Each user request
costs us 6€ on average to proceed. In 2017 our help desk was paid
entirely out of donations.

We maintain and update our infrastructure. You might not see this
effort, but it constitutes a crucial part of our work to verify that
everything is functioning correctly, build ISO images, test, make it
possible to publish emergency releases faster.

Organizing our own meetings and attending conferences in our field
is critical to keep our community alive and relevant. But this is
usually hard to get funded by grants, so donations help us a lot here.